Badly fitting shorts, low-cut polo shirts and clothes made of uncomfortable materials – just some of the unflattering items of PE kit that deter some teenage girls from playing sport at school.
A new survey by Virgin Active has found that 39 per cent of girls (and 46 per cent of 16-year-old girls) enjoy being active but hate their PE kit.
Nearly half of the girls who took part in the research admitted to making up excuses to get out of PE lessons, while more than a quarter of the 16-year-olds said they avoided sport because they felt ugly in their sports kit.
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